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Shark's Jaw

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“Heed them not! those teeth but give new rowlocks to your oars. Pull on! ’tis the better rest, the shark’s jaw than the yielding water.”

“But at every bite, sir, the thin blades grow smaller and smaller!”

Chapter 135, The Chase.—Third Day · verse 37

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